Who is The Shooter Of Russian University
A gunman opened fire at a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding about two dozen more, according to Russian authorities. The shooter, who police say was a university student, entered a building on the Perm State University campus where classes were taking place and began firing with a shotgun.
Police said officers confronted the shooter and detained him after he was seriously injured in a shooting. He was taken to a hospital for medical treatment and is now in critical condition, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes. Initially, police said eight people had died, but health authorities later checked six dead in late Monday afternoon. Twenty-eight people had sought medical attention with injuries of varying degrees of severity, the Perm health ministry said, 19 of them with gunshot wounds.
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Shortly after the attack occurred, videos posted on social media showed terrified students jumping out of windows to escape and barricading themselves inside classrooms. Semyon Karyakin, a second-year geology student, said he was in an elevator coming down the stairs after a class when he heard gunshots.
“The doors opened, two girls ran in and behind them there were shots,” Karayakin told ABC News by phone. He said the elevator opened into the hallway where the gunman had just entered the building and he believed the attacker had shot at the two women.
The students retreated one floor, he said, but the gunman had already climbed the stairs by then. We got lucky again because the elevator closed again and we managed to get out of there. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be talking to you,” he said. The group hid in a classroom, trying to bring in other students, and barricaded themselves there until police arrived, he said.
The shooter was stopped by a traffic officer who was on campus, according to police. Officer Konstantin Kalinin told Russian television that he and his partner had run into the building after a witness told them there was a shooter. As his partner helped evacuate people, Kalinin said that he went looking for the attacker.
“I ran to the building to the first floor, I saw a young man with a gun coming down the stairs,” Kalinin said in a video interview. “I yelled at him, ‘Drop it,’ to which the young man pointed he shoots me and shoots me. After which I used my gun.” After the shooter fell to the ground, Kalinin said that he ran and kicked his guns.
“And then after that, I started giving him first aid,” he said. Russian state media named the suspect as Timur Bekmansurov, an 18-year-old law student. An account by Bekmansurov’s name on the Russian social media network VKontakte published a lengthy post shortly before the attack that describes fantasizing about carrying out a mass murder in a public place. In the post, the person wrote that he has no religious or political motive and said that he had dreamed of murder “for years.”
An accompanying post showed the alleged shooter wearing a helmet and rounds of ammunition around his chest, pointing a finger at the camera.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said it opened a murder investigation and is investigating the circumstances of the shooting. Bekmansurov bought the shotgun used in the attack in May and had legally acquired it, the Russian National Guard told the state news agency TASS.
Monday’s mass shooting was one of the deadliest in recent Russian history. Unlike the United States, school shootings are rare in Russia; although student attacks have become more frequent in recent years. In 2018, an 18-year-old student shot dead 20 people and injured 70 others before committing suicide at Kerch Polytechnic College in Crimea.
That has recently sparked demand for authorities to strengthen safeguards around gun ownership. In May this year, a 19-year-old boy killed nine people and wounded 20 when he opened fire in a Kazan school, also using a weapon that he had legally acquired. That shooting prompted Russian President Putin to order that the rules for owning a gun be tightened.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov defended the government’s efforts to strengthen the rules on Monday, saying work had been done to achieve this.
“But unfortunately, you see, the tragedy has happened and now it has to be analyzed,” he told reporters.
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